Recent content by RostokMcSpoons

Success! I've got a combi boiler. I just opened the downstairs taps and let them run (at not much more than a steady trickle) for longer than I thought it would take, and eventually the flow stopped. I hacksawed one pipe at the bottom of the tap and after that it was relatively plain...

Good news! I've managed to remove the connectors from the pipework without resorting to a hacksaw. Bad news: 1) I can't undo the same style connectors from the bottom of the existing tap :( It's probably just a result of the lack of accessibility and visibility to the connectors (they're...

Thank you all so much for the helpful replies - I'm at work now so I'll have to try this out later, but I know what I'm dealing with now. I'm just a little concerned the collars are stuck, but maybe if I try some 'percussive maintenance'... :) It's so strange, I spent a while googling for...

Mick, thanks for the quick reply.... Those grey collars seem pretty immovable, do I need to put a wrench below it and lever up with a screwdriver? I'm worried more plastic will just snap off if I do... is there a specialist tool I need? Should I squirt in some WD40 to loosen it? Or heat...

Arggghhhhh... I'm stuck at the first real hurdle, removing the existing tap's hoses from the copper piping. Instead of a simple nut to undo, I'm faced with a plain plastic sleeve, and what appears to be a plastic collar on the pipe. I can twist the darned thing around forever (or at least...

Push fittings?

Hi, Sorry for not replying earlier... I got caught up wrestling with the cover, then discovering away to get inside it (yay!), then with unrelated problem fitting the oven. It took me most of the morning. I got inside the cover by taking the whole thing off the case again, whereupon I...

... I can't open the darned plastic cover over the connectors! It's on an Electrolux EOB3400AOW electric single oven. I've removed a screw from 'a'. I've tried prising open what looks like a fuse holder with a screwdriver in 'b'. It does move, but it's not popping open, and I...